From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" in DOS mode
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 08:09:23 GMT
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:16:00 GMT, "Mark Moore"
<Mark DOT Moore AT Alation DOT comxxx> wrote:

>If you want to try a stupid DOS trick, you can completely eliminate
>config.sys and autoexec.bat and still step through them!
>
>First, rename the two files to something innocuous.  Then, reboot and hit
><F8> when you hear the beep, or see "Starting Windows...".

Or turn on the boot menu in msconfig.

>I haven't memorized the list (and I don't really feel like rebooting
>to get the list right), but one of them
>will offer to step through the startup line by line.  Try it!

#4 IIRC.
(I've added BootMenu=1 to my msdos.sys so that I can boot to
plain DOS or Windows 98 from power on; my boot sequence is
  LILO -> F8 menu -> windows

>It will step through lines you never wrote in files that don't exist.
>It's pretty funny.  The last line of the autoexec file will be "win",
>by the way.

lose.

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